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★ "Finally, the intersectional, lesbian, historical teen novel so many readers have been waiting for... Beautifully written historical fiction about giddy, queer, first love."
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★ "Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a work of historical fiction that's as meticulously researched as it is full of raw, authentic emotion. ... Shout it from the highest hills: This is a beautiful, brave story, and Lily is a heroine that readers will love."
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★ "Writing beautifully with a knowing, gentle hand that balances Lily's unease and courage, Lo presents a must-read love story in an uncommon setting: the midcentury queer Bay Area at a time when racism, homophobia, and McCarthyism held tight grips on the citizenry. The author's notes are a wealth of historical information and discuss the seed from which this alternately heart-wrenching and satisfying story grew."
- Booklist

★ "Smoothly referencing cultural touchstones and places with historic Chinese American significance, Lo conjures 1950s San Francisco adeptly while transcending historicity through a sincere exploration of identity and love."
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★ "This immersive, powerful coming-of-age novel tackles perceptions, expectations, and identity while sweeping readers into smoky lesbian nightclubs and '50s culture."
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★ "A riveting, emotionally stirring tale. ... Last Night at the Telegraph Club-focused on unapologetically embracing one's true self-is a spectacular addition to the young adult historical fiction genre."
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★ "This standout work of historical fiction combines meticulous research with tender romance to create a riveting bildungsroman. San Francisco, 'with its steep stairways and sudden glimpses of the bay between tall, narrow buildings,' is almost a character itself."
- The Horn Book

"Lush, ambitious and layered, Malinda Lo's sweeping historical novel is the queer romance we've been waiting for."
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"[A] beautifully written look at the relationship between love and politics."
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"Lo's writing, restrained yet luscious, shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire. A lovely, memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world."
- Sarah Waters, international bestselling and award-winning author of Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch

"Exquisite and heart-shattering, Last Night at the Telegraph Club made me ache with wishing. This book is for anyone who has ever loved-in any sense of the word."
- Emily X.R. Pan, New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After

"Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an instant classic, the finest LGBTQIA+ romance I've read in ages. Lo has lovingly re-created 1950s San Francisco and made me feel as though I'd lived there, and her depiction of first love felt so real that I experienced it in long-since-forgotten corners of my own heart."
- Bill Konigsberg, award-winning author of The Music of What Happens and The Bridge

"Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a beautifully observed story about finding love and fighting for one's identity against tremendous odds. In bringing a fascinating chapter of history to vivid life, this novel illuminates a path to the future through a careful understanding of our past. It's vivid, emotional, and hopeful. I loved it."
- Abdi Nazemian, author of Stonewall Honor Book Like a Love Story

"Malinda Lo turns her masterful talent toward an under-covered period of San Francisco history. Last Night at the Telegraph Club is by turns gut-wrenching, utterly compelling, and deeply tender. I loved Lily fiercely, and you will too."
- Rebecca Kim Wells, author of Shatter the Sky

"Lo has really outdone herself here. I don't think I can overstate how refreshing it is to read queer historical fiction that is so complex, nuanced, and tender. It's my opinion that this book will quickly become a new touchstone of the genre of queer literature. What an accomplishment."
- Sarah Gailey, award-winning author of Magic for Liars and Upright Women Wanted

﻿"Oh, what a wonderful novel this is! For all who ever dared to want more, much more, from life-a beautifully sensitive love story, with telling historic detail."
- Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar-nominated Maggie Hope series

"A sweeping and romantic page-turner, the heart of this rich and ambitious historical novel is a love story that thrums with passion and self-discovery."
- Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award Finalist and Printz Award winning author of Bone Gap﻿

"A lovely, affirming, layered, and deft coming-of-queer-age novel."
- New York Times bestselling author Kate Elliott

"Lily is my favorite kind of heroine: observant, loving, and startlingly brave. Malinda Lo is my favorite kind of writer, one who can bring a scene to life with exquisite detail and nuance. Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a triumph. It is the queer novel I wish I had read as a teenager, and feel lucky to have read now."
-Marie Rutkoski, New York Times bestselling author of The Winner's Trilogy

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★ "Finally, the intersectional, lesbian, historical teen novel so many readers have been waiting for... Beautifully written historical fiction about giddy, queer, first love." - Kirkus ★ "Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a work of historical fiction that's as meticulously researched as it is full of raw, authentic emotion.

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I am writing this on January 7, 2021, and I have no idea how to review a book that depicts a notorious historical event where white supremacists rioted and destroyed a Black community, when yesterday, almost exactly 100 years later, white supremacists rioted their way into the U.S. Capitol Building. But Angel of Greenwood deserves to fly into the world on the biggest wings she can spread, so I'm going to try.

The year is 1921. Angel Hill and Isaiah Wilson are Black teenagers living in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla. Greenwood, sometimes called "Black Wall Street," is a place where people can live together and run businesses and go about their lives, set slightly apart from the racism and Jim Crow atrocities that are the reality for Black people across America.

Angel and Isaiah know that their community is special. Angel gives thanks for it by offering everything to her family and her neighbors, sacrificing her youth in order to tend to her dying father and provide help to anyone who needs it. Isaiah takes advantage of his freedom to run wild with his best friend Muggy, getting into trouble and being a general nuisance. But then, one Sunday, Isaiah watches Angel dance in church, and he suddenly sees both her and their community differently. He sees himself differently - he wants to be worthy of a girl like Angel and of the place they call home.

What follows is a love story: Angel and Isaiah have a lot to learn from each other, whether it's figuring out how to overcome their own inner demons or seeing the merits of each other's philosophical and literary idols, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. They banter, they work with and for their neighbors, and they build a bond that could lead to a future.

Then comes the Tulsa Race Massacre. White rioters loot and burn 35 blocks of Black homes and businesses, decimating Greenwood and killing and injuring hundreds. Angel and Isaiah have to choose how to act in the face of such terror and destruction.

Angel of Greenwood is fundamentally a story about love, but because this is America, it's also a story about hate. The romantic love in it is big and beautiful and pure. And beyond the love between two teenagers, there's a deep love of community and home. Greenwood feels so wholesome, so idyllic, and when the hate breaks through, it will break your heart.

Though it is historical fiction, Angel of Geenwood walks a tight line between depicting the time accurately and a more modern understanding of race in America. There are times throughout the book where the dialogue and language feels old-fashioned, like it belongs in one of the 19th century texts that Angel and Isaiah recommend to each other, while simultaneously using current terminology. This is clearly a deliberate choice by the author, and an innovative one, though at times I found the juxtaposition a little jarring. I expect that effect is also a deliberate choice.

I hope teachers assign this in schools and librarians turn it face-out on the shelves. American kids need to know this history to be good citizens.

While reading, I wondered if there would be enough conflict and plot in the first two thirds of the book to carry me through if I wasn't waiting for a terrible shoe to drop. Upon reflection, I think the answer is that the love story would have been enough. It was beautiful, and I wish these two fictional teens could have just been in love without having to face tragedy. We need books about Black love and joy, too. But Angel of Greenwood has a bone to pick with history, and it could not be more timely.

I hope teachers assign this in schools and librarians turn it face-out on the shelves. American kids need to know this history to be good citizens. They need to feel it in their very bones if we're to have any hope of not repeating it again and again. They need to see more depictions of Black teens falling in love and being happy. And now, more than ever, they need examples of the bravery that it takes to stand up in the face of white supremacy and not lose hope. It is something we all must do, in the days to come.

Caitlyn Paxson is a writer and performer. She is a regular reviewer for NPR Books and Quill & Quire.

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Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

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Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802, in Villers-Cotterêts, France. He adopted the last name "Dumas" from his grandmother, a former Haitian slave. Dumas established himself as one of the most popular and prolific authors in France, known for plays and historical adventure novels such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. He died on December 5, 1870, in Puys, France. His works have been translated into more than 100 languages and adapted for numerous films.

Early Life

Alexandre Dumas was born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie on July 24, 1802, in Villers-Cotterêts, France, to Marie Louise Labouret and General Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie. The Dumas family name was adopted from Alexandre's grandmother, an enslaved Haitian woman named Marie-Césette Dumas. His grandfather was the Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de La Pailleterie. Thomas-Alexandre took the name Dumas when he enlisted in Napoleon's army, where he acquired the dubious nickname "Black Devil."

Thomas-Alexandre rose to the rank of general at the age of 31, the highest rank of any black man in a European army. In 1797, he distinguished himself at the battle of Adige when he surprised and defeated an Austrian battery. Thomas-Alexandre left the armed forces following a disagreement with Napoleon over his Egypt campaign. He was imprisoned for nearly two years and died shortly after his release. After her husband's death, Marie Louise Labouret worked hard to provide an education for her son. Dumas attended Abbé Grégoire's school before dropping out to take a job assisting a local notary.

Writing Career

In 1822, Dumas moved to Paris and immersed himself in literature. He worked as a scribe for the duc d'Orléans (later named King Louis Philippe) during the 1830 revolution. He began writing plays, both comedies and dramas. Dumas's Romantic style-often compared to that of his contemporary and rival, Victor Hugo -proved to be exceptionally popular.

Dumas was a prolific writer of essays, short stories and novels, as well as plays and travelogues. His interests also encompassed crime and scandals and wrote eight volumes of essays on infamous cases in history such as that of Lucrezia Borgia and Cesare Borgia, and names more contemporary to his time, like Karl Ludwig Sand. But he achieved widespread success with his novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, initially published as serials. The Three Musketeers was one of three novels in his D'Artagnan Romances, the others being Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. The story "The Man in the Iron Mask" from Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, also stands out as one his most widely known. Among his many volumes of romantic novels are the series of Valois, which center on Queen Marguerite, the last in the Capetian dynasty, and eight novels dubbed the Marie Antoinette romances. He also penned the fantasy novel The Wolf Leader, which is considered one of the earliest werewolf-themed books. The popularity of his writing made Dumas a household name in France and a celebrity throughout much of Europe.

With the money he earned from publishing his novels, Dumas purchased land and built the Château de Monte Cristo in Port Marly, Yvelines, France. This home (which is now a museum) was intended to be a sanctuary for the author, and he spent much of his time writing and entertaining there before debt overtook him, forcing him to sell the property. He fled to Belgium in 1851, and later to Russia, to evade creditors. Dumas continued to publish books, including travel books on Russia, during his period of exile.

Personal Life

Dumas had a son, also named Alexandre, with Marie Laure Catherine Labay. His son followed in his literary footsteps. In 1840, Dumas married actress Ida Ferrier, but continued his affairs with other women. He had at least one daughter, Marie Alexandrine, out of wedlock, and dated much younger women in his old age.

Death and Legacy

Dumas died on December 5, 1870, at his son's home in Puys, France. He was buried in the cemetery of Villers-Cotterêts. In 2002, his body was moved to the Panthéon in Paris, where Dumas rests among such other French literary greats like his rival Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "Alexandre Dumas will finally take his place beside Victor Hugo and Emile Zola, his brothers in literature," said President Jacques Chirac. "With you, it is childhood, hours of reading relished in secret, emotion, passion, adventure and panache that enter the Pantheon. With you we dreamed. With you we still dream."

Dumas' swashbuckling adventures continue to appeal to readers worldwide, with his work having been translated into more than 100 languages and adapted into a multitude of films. In 2008, an unfinished manuscript, The Last Cavalier, was published.

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Louisa May Alcott was an American author who wrote under various pseudonyms and only started using her own name when she was ready to commit to writing. Her novel Little Women gave Alcott financial independence and a lifetime writing career. She died in 1888.

Early Life

Famed novelist Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Alcott was a best-selling novelist of the late 1800s, and many of her works, most notably Little Women, remain popular today.

Alcott was taught by her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, until 1848, and studied informally with family friends such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker. Residing in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, Alcott worked as a domestic servant and teacher, among other positions, to help support her family from 1850 to 1862. During the Civil War, she went to Washington, D.C. to work as a nurse.

Acclaimed Author: 'Little Women'

Unknown to most people, Alcott had been publishing poems, short stories, thrillers and juvenile tales since 1851, under the pen name Flora Fairfield. In 1862, she also adopted the pen name A.M. Barnard, and some of her melodramas were produced on Boston stages. But it was her account of her Civil War experiences, Hospital Sketches (1863), that confirmed Alcott's desire to be a serious writer. She began to publish stories under her real name in Atlantic Monthly and Lady's Companion, and took a brief trip to Europe in 1865 before becoming editor of a girls' magazine, Merry's Museum.

The great success of Little Women gave Alcott financial independence and created a demand for more books. Over the final years of her life, she turned out a steady stream of novels and short stories, mostly for young people and drawn directly from her family life. Her other books include Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1875) and Jo's Boys (1886). Alcott also tried her hand at adult novels, such as Work (1873) and A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), but these tales were not as popular as her other writings.

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